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  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite ... one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd ... at least one slam or three (or many more), or an open mic (or even both

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  , at least for now. ----- "leave my door open just a crack / cuz i ... clinic I worked at this summer, and also in anticipation for my future ... was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... gathering with a banner welcoming me to Louisiana. At second glance, it turned

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for ... experienced my CPW, two years ago, through a downpour. I was temped at Mac ... . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious homecoming weekends and rivalry football games broadcasted on ESPN. At MIT ... , and ridiculous amounts of confetti, this event is a must-see for any MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... , which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have ... appreciation for The Marauders. I reread the individual books often, and just this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  ,                                                                                                                                                 Anastassia TED Talks TED talks, for those unfamilar, are "riveting talks by ... discounted seat for only ~$20 in the outdoors section. All photos courtesy of ... Battle for Power on the Internet. Sara Seager, Galactic Explorer (what a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Wellesley. Friday nights, anybody's welcome, and for the food and the company ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  Govern of the the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT or maybe the ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT ... following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  class 11.027, City to City, spent our week doing ground research for four different planning projects: working for a neighborhood advocacy group, blight ... one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  and I had just woken up to go for a run, so at the time I pegged it as a ... run through Boston at the time, and he was chilling in someone ... birds. That’s kind of a problem for my teammate Katy ‘11, who is deathly

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... we have not processed it. We will not look at your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  next to the shattered fragments. We also took a few mementos. (For these ... fellow Poriferan who was at the drop with me.) Unfufilled by the lack of ... Harvey Diamond Trio from the Vermont Jazz Center; so at 8:00pm that night

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  humble opinion. I've spent the past week solving puzzles for Mystery Hunt, playing with cell culture for my UROP, and building stuff at my fraternity ... puzzle-palooza, which ran from Friday at noon until about 8 pm on Sunday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students ... for years, and you will love the way that grades are flexible and ... will give you cookies without razor blades in them for trivial reasons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  married, some factor accounting for the likelihood of getting married at all ... aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd ... , without worrying about problem sets, tests, and papers. For more info about ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  . "They're for my friends at... uh...nevermind"). 2.) Gather friends and ... implementing capable lovable hand turkeys. For those unfamiliar with the concept ... -oiled machine under her stern but gentle leadership and for the first time (ever

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006